From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-02-03T04:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: halving a string

On Feb 2, 11:32 am, "Tiago Pinto" <thpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> > I have a vacuum fluorescent display in my office, and I've been
> > messing around with it. Now that I've figured out how to communicate
> > with the serial connection it's time for some fun.
>
> aside the string hackery, will the comunication be done using ruby? ;P
>
[snip]

Mine will be. The code for handling the communication is ugly (the
win32api pretty much guarantees that), but I've wrapped it in a module
so I never have to look at it again (hopefully). I'm using the display
as stdout for a couple of little maintenance scripts, too.

Otherwise, there's been some great solutions here. Thanks everyone.